4 Min Read | December 12, 2023
How to use the Cash Flow tab in American Express Business BlueprintTM
The Cash Flow tab uses live data from your select American Express products and linked external bank and card accounts to organize, display, and calculate the money in and out of your business over your selected periods.
The Cash Flow tab's charts and graphs can help you organize and display your data in three ways:
Cash flow. View the money in and money out of your business together over a selected period to identify gaps.
Money in. Track money coming into your business over a selected period.
Money out. See the flow of money out of your business over a selected period.
This guide will help you understand the many ways that Business Blueprint can help you better understand your cash flow.
After logging into your Business Blueprint dashboard, select the first tab within “Insights” on the top left side of the page.
By default, you will see a line chart showing your cash flow for the current month, aggregated across all your accounts, in the middle of the page. An itemized list of your transactions will appear below.
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What is cash flow?
It’s a term you’ve probably seen around. Cash flow is the amount of cash that comes into and goes out of a business, and it’s an important indicator of financial health.
Want to have a better understanding of cash flow and how you can boost it? Check out this article.
Step 1: Hover over any point of the graph
Placing your cursor over any point on the line graph will generate a small tooltip box on the graph, showing your cash flow for that day.
To view information for a different day, simply move your cursor left or right along the line.
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Step 2: Choose which data is displayed on the graph
You can change what data is displayed on the graph by using the drop-down boxes on the right side, above the graph.
These allow you to change the period under review as well as which accounts are included. Your options include weekly, monthly, and quarterly breakdowns, as well as the ability to view a custom date range.
When viewing any period other than “Current Month,” the data will be displayed as stacked bar graphs representing money in (green) and money out (red). Hovering over any part of a bar will generate a tooltip with a breakdown of your money in, money out, and cash flow for that period.
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Why don’t I see any data?
At the start of a new month, you may not have any money in or money out transactions. In this case the Cash Flow page will show a zero-dollar balance, and there will be no transactions listed below the chart. Data will begin to appear as new transactions are processed.
If you do not have a business bank account currently linked to Business Blueprint there will not be any data to display, and you will see a message indicating “No linked accounts.”
To add data sources to your account, follow these instructions to link a new account.
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